User:Aitor Karanka

/sci/ former manager, second best fantasy handegg manager I'm gud. Contact at skype aitor.karanka.sci or at sciaitorkaranka@gmail.com

Muh ego stats

• 5-3-6 record; 18 goals 23 against -5 GD
• Biggest win: 4-2 against  /an/
• Biggest loss: 5-1 against  /ck/
• First game: 2-1 loss against  /co/

Fun facts

• Thorium and Secret Italian Supercat are the only keepers that have recorded a clean sheet.
• Thorium has made the most cup appearances by a keeper during this tenure.
• Carl Sagan is the only player so far that has scored more than once in a game
• Carl Sagan made more goals in the 2014 Winter Cup friendlies than he did previously ever.
• Every time Nikola Tesla has scored /sci/ has lost on 3 of those 5 games (the other game was a 3-2 win which wasn't enough to prevent /sci/ to go to the Qualifiers and the latter being a 2-1 win over /vg/)
• Richard Feynman and Richard Dawkins are the only non medals to have scored.
• /sci/ has scored in every but three games. (Against /y/ in the 2013 Autumn Friendlies and the 2014 Spring Babby Cup against /u/ and /c/)
• /sci/'s cup wins were on the last day on the last game.
• /sci/ hasn't lost a game where Bill Nye has scored.

Reserve stuff for the /sci/ managers to remember

No. Position Player 16   GK Wolfram Alpha 6   CB PopSci 11   CB Peak Oil 30   CB Go back to /x/ 99   CB Aquatic Hamster 2   DMF You should solve this 33   CMF >Psychology >Science 12   CMF >Philosophy on /sci/ 10   AMF Brian Cox 8   SS Michio Kaku 1   CF Black Science Man

No. Position Player 15   GK Prove me wrong 90   GK Fucking Undergrads 17   CB Autism tests 20   CB Qualia 21   CB Epicurus 22   CB Liberal Arts Major 69   CB Magnets 9   CB LaTeX 83   CMF Xavier Raja 14   CMF Ray Kurzweil 34   CMF Quantum Ice Cream 18   CMF 20-30 Hiroshima Bombs

/sci/ History

2012 Spring Babby Cup

The original /sci/ kits, the home kits donned the black and blue colours of the team based off Inter Milan's kits.

Discussions to field a team representing /sci/ started off on January 6th, 2012 by Lion !FvAwVR8cv6, the board welcomed the proposal and started throwing proposals for players on the team. Between these proposals were included some logo ideas that featured then /sci/'s mascot /sci/duck and a generic scientist on a square background, but ultimately a square logo featuring Carl Sagan, Thorium and its atomic number and the number pi won the attention of the board and was declared the official logo that still stands to this day. The roster listed below was fielded for the 2012 4chan Spring Babby Cup Friendlies but /sci/ failed to submit a roster within the deadline by 4 minutes, commissioner GermanBro was harsh on the team and punished them with no medals, thus affecting them on their debut against d, but /sci/ took it quite well and even joked about the incident by making 4 minutes their goalhorn for the friendlies. Of course /sci/ lost their game against /d/ but somehow managed to beat /vp/ thanks to some serious spaghetti by them including 2 own goals by their players.

By the time the proper competition came, /sci/ incorporated now famous striker Bill Nye the Science Guy after being suggested by board goer Luca, Bill Nye quickly became /sci/'s gold striker in the GSBB era. The tournament had /sci/ drawn with /pol/, /r9k/ and /mlp/. /sci/'s start was a heartbreaking 1-1 draw against /r9k/ with a late minute goal by Japanese Lettuce Hardcore. Against /mlp/ the tables turned around as Bill Nye scored a near last minute equalizer. Facing uncertainty for their last game after /r9k/ defeated /mlp/, /sci/ had to beat /pol/ in the first edition of the Progressb Owl and got the result they wanted, a 2-1 win with goals by both Richards: Dawkins and Feynman. A play-in had to be made in order to be in the proper knock-out phase, so /sci/ as runners-up of their group faced /gif/, before that game the first actual live manager stepped up to help /sci/ under the name of Dicks !BYmn6QVNCw who managed to defeat /gif/ 1-0. In the quarters /sci/ routed the now infamous Durgen /n/ team to make the semis. But the dreams of gold ended with a 2-1 loss against /3/ with a failed rally attempt by Bill Nye that wasn't enough. Consolation came as /sci/ managed to beat /d/ to obtain the third place spot, a very fitting way to end their first official tournament by defeating their very first rivals.

Original roster

No. Position Player   GK Stephen Hawking   LB >biology >hard science   CB Putnam Math   CB 300k Starting   LB Eugenics   DMF Deep Sea Bro   DMF Nikola Tesla   CMF Thorium   AMF Magnets   AMF Richard Feynman   SS Carl Sagan

No. Position Player   GK LaTeX   LB CERN   RB Agnostic Atheist   CB Internet Philosopher   DMF Troll Science   LMF Evolution   RMF Homo Engineer   RWF Saged Homework   LWF Transhumanist   CMF Tsoukalos   AMF >tfwnogf   SS Richard Dawkins

Players in Bold have never been removed from the team and still are on the team up to this date. Players in Italics are still on the team but after being removed.

2012 Summer Cup

With a third place finish in Spring, things looked promising for /sci/ heading into summer. But a couple of issues were soon to appear with the team. First it was that third place winning manager Dicks stated that he wasn't going to be available for summer, therefore /sci/ was into a managerial uncertainty heading into summer. Second was that the usual people in charge of /sci/'s wiki page were clashing heads over roster changes on one side was Luca and on the other side was Triviaguy88, the controversy came after Luca allegedly made some roster changes without consulting the board and ignoring the fact that there was a poll to make the roster changes, that and the fact that both were clashing heads on whether how the player Theory (A Guess) should be named, on one side there was a campaign to name him Theory (A geuss) and on the other Theory (a gauss).

With these elements in mind /sci/ was drawn in a group with defending elite cup champions /k/, /int/ and /mu/. The first game was a complete disaster featuring a very poor set of conditions that /int/ managed to take advantage of with a hattrick by Putin and goals by Maradona and >argentina >white. Next up came defending champions /k/, who came after a very close draw against /mu/, their offense was swift and effective as 3 goals were scored in the first 18 minutes. /sci/ managed to pull a late rally bringing the deficit to 3-2 but a 90+1' goal by Deagle Brand Deagle put any efforts of a comeback void, even with a last attempt by Bill Nye and the score ended 4-3 for /k/. The final game against /mu/ was a do-or-die for /sci/ since they needed to win to have a chance to at least avoid relegation despite not making the knockouts, but thing started off badly with /mu/ scoring 2 goals in the first half, it looked like it was going to be another devastating loss, but with a joint effort by Bill Nye and Thorium made a last minute comeback to draw 2-2. This result sent /sci/ to Autumn but managed to salvage some dignity.

2012 Autumn Babby Cup - 2013 Spring Babby Cup: Atrox era and uncertainty afterwards

After the disaster that followed the Summer Cup, a man named Atrox !TmSV8N.Vwo asked /sci/ about taking over as their manager, which met with immediate approval by the board, taking over on August 20, 2012. His debut came on the 2012 4chan Autumn Babby Cup Friendlies where he got off to a wrong start losing 3-2 to /lit/, a scoreless draw against /co/ and the worst loss up to this date, a 7-1 loss against eventual tournament champions /wg/. By the time Autumn came a cloud of incertainty came above the team whether their Spring run was a fluke and if they were really a weak team, that was going to be proven in the Group Stages. In the proper tournament they were drawn with newcomers /trv/, spring returners /f/ and >molly's /cgl/.

On the first game things got off to a great start with a 4-1 win over /f/ including a hattrick by Bill Nye and a goal by Carl Sagan. The next game was a close call as /sci/ was drawing against an all 1's /cgl/, but Richard Feynman came to save the day and effectively secured a place for the Winter Cup. Next up came an entertaining match against /trv/ which featured /trv/ GK Noobius Expedia scoring a free kick goal and Bill Nye's reserve striker Epicurus scoring the equalizer and getting a draw for both teams heading into the knockouts. In the Round of 16, /sci/ encountered /mlp/, a team that got a draw against them in the last competition they both were. Things look promising as Bill Nye scored an early goal but then it got bad quickly with /mlp/ turning it around 2-1 a bit after halftime, Bill scored the equalizer fast but with 19 minutes to go Best Pony scored the goal that ended /sci/'s run in Autumn, although the goal of getting into Winter was met, there was a feeling /sci/ got into winter with a relatively easy group, a theory that had to be debunked by the time winter came.

With the new rules of the Winter Friendlies, there was only a friendly scheduled, and it resulted in a not-so exciting draw against /3/. In the proper Elite competition they were drawn with elites /int/ and /fit/ along with promoted 4th place babby team /vg/. Due to certain discrepancies, /sci/ was sanctioned with having a bronze without skill cards for the competition. First off was /int/, who /sci/ had suffered a humiliating loss in Summer, were expecting to turn things around but it looked like history was bound to repeat itself as Putin scored in the 25th minute and again with a penalty after a poor challenge in the box, /sci/ got a consolation own goal by /int/'s goalkeeper but it wasn't enough and went off with a loss. Next up came /vg/ who had lost against /fit/ after leading 2-0. /sci/ took an early lead with Bill Nye but /vg/ replied almost immediately, the RNG blessed /sci/ with a red card for a /vg/ player which /sci/ capitalized with a goal by subbed on player Aquatic Hamster, but there was a feeling /sci/ needed to take more advantage due to the fact that they needed goals to have a healthy goal average coming to the last game. The final game against /fit/ started horribly with 2 goals in 20 minutes before Nikola Tesla replied before halftime, but their awful midfield conditioning combined with a purple Bill Nye made it impossible to attack, and /fit/ capitalized with a goal by Zyzz that put a nail in the coffin on /sci/'s Winter run that had to end with a consolation goal by Epicurus. A report regarding /sci/'s winter cup run can be found here.

By the time Spring came, morale by both manager and board came to an all time low. /sci/ was filled (and still is) with autistic people who report cup threads on sight, and with this the manager faced both /adv/ and /jp/ with mindgame B-I-L-L formations that went off for losses that didn't result in anything noteworthy. These set of tactics carried on to Spring where they were drawn with /lit/, /ck/ and /f/, which looked like no challenge on paper. First off was /lit/, who was Atrox's first rival and beat him on the Autumn Friendlies. After 10 minutes of autism to set up /sci/'s tactics and then with a late reply by /lit/'s manager, things looked like the audience was in for a borefest, and it was, Bill Nye scored the first one for /sci/ but 2 replies in the second half by /lit/ complicated /sci/'s chances for the summer cup. Next, came /ck/ who were trying to redeem themselves after an embarassing winter run, /ck/ tried to pound hard over /sci/'s defence but it was useless as they collided against the wall of Thorium and with a cheeky goal by Not Science, which was the only goal in the game and the only shot by /sci/ as well hope arised coming to the /f/ game. /sci/ needed to win after /ck/ drew against /lit/, but disappointment came as /f/ got their revenge from Autumn and left /sci/ on the road to autumn. This made Atrox resign and leaving the team managerless, allegedly Goldenratio was going to take over but it later fell through as he left to join the /b/ testing squad instead. Then Dragongate happened, a scandal so big a lot of teams in summer were consequently disqualified as they were managed by the same person, /sci/ was one of the 8 teams benefitted from this scandal and got to summer, and now with a diminished manager pool, Atrox decided to stay but wanted out of the team so /sci/ was heading into Summer with more doubts than ever.

2013 Summer Cup - 2014 Spring Babby Cup: Aitor Karanka era and decline

The concept of disappointment was common during the Aitor Karanka era. (Click to see .gif)

With a manager looking to bail out of the sinking ship, manager Aitor Karanka !!vHwU8e1Ta/3 took over less than 2 weeks before the proper Summer Cup to avoid /sci/ going out with a nearly dead B formation, an apparently solid export was submitted and hopes went up, only to be shut down when they got drawn in a group featuring 2013 Winter third place /pol/, /ck/ and /co/ who were granted a second chance along with /sci/. First up came /co/, who had managed to scrap off a draw against /sci/ in the 2013 4chan Summer Cup Friendlies with a new management as well, things started off well with a goal by Nikola Tesla, but a very last minute rally gave /co/ a 2-1 victory, it later turned out that some games were affected including this one were affected by draw scripts that had blowouts and determined results, there wasn't a replay so /sci/ got stuck with the loss. Next up came /ck/, who had lost against /sci/ in spring thanks to the wall of Thorium, and it looked like it was going to be the same way with an early goal by Tesla, but then disaster happened, three goals in the first half for /ck/ combined with /sci/'s awful defence conditioning made it a nightmare and lost 5-1, effectively relegating the team to autumn thanks to the fact that upcoming rivals /pol/ lost their first 2 games as well. Since there was nothing left to play for but some honor, both /sci/ and /pol/ were determined to go out and give the fans some entertainment with a blitzkrieg formation by /pol/ and the B formation by /sci/ and played on the now famous Doompaul pitch, /sci/ managed to get a win to salvage their honour and a conclusion was reached that /sci/ wasn't really relegated by being weak, rather than from an unfortunate turn of events.

Heading into Autumn, /sci/ had two teams affected by Dragongate, /y/ and /diy/ which resulted in a loss and a draw, it was more of rather if some tactics worked or not heading into Autumn, in the way /sci/ picked up tester and eventual co-manager SUPERtwinky !!G5xDaK3GlNe after being sacked by /3/ after a series of doubtful results against /vr/ giving them their first win ever and /r9k/. /sci/ was yet again drawn into the hardest group out there with powerhouses /tg/, Winter fourth place /cm/ affected by Dragongate and /vr/ that blazed through the Qualifiers. First up came /cm/, a seemingly accesible game, and it started off with a goal by Bill Nye but /cm/ quickly equalized, and although /sci/ kept on knocking only to be denied by trollbars and had to settle with a draw. Next up came /tg/, a game on which Aitor wasn't there due to IRL stuff and had twinky managing, and started off great with a goal by Tesla but 2 quick replies by /tg/ including Doomrider's bycicle kick lead to panic which made it worse and lost 4-1, seriously damaging /sci/'s chances to go to Winter. Finally came /vr/ who only needed a draw to advance, and given /tg/'s shocking 5-0 loss to /cm/, /sci/ had to win by 2 to avoid the Spring Qualifiers and 3 to advance to winter, /sci/ started swiftly with an early goal by Richard Feynman followed by a second half goal by Bill Nye, this avoided the qualifiers, but Doomguy put the score at 2-1, /sci/ replied with a goal by Nikola Tesla to avoid the qualifiers and were a goal away from Winter, but deception came as Doomguy challenged physics and put the final 3-2 score to put /sci/ into the Spring Qualifiers, the general perception of it was that /sci/ could've advanced if Aitor was managing on the /tg/ game to at least help their goal differential to avoid the Qualifiers.

With a new revamp of rules there was no Spring Babby friendlies, so the 2014 4chan Winter Cup Friendlies were vital to know /sci/'s strength on the new platform that was PES 14 and it went fairly well with a 4-2 win over /an/ and a 2-1 comeback against /cm/ as revenge from Autumn. As for the Spring tournament, which had 40 teams instead of the qualifiers that had been discontinued, /sci/ was drawn along with /c/, /u/, /vp/ and /vg/ and were favorites to at least come second at least. First came /u/, who got relegated in Winter and was a fairly tough team, /sci/ parked the bus and got a 0-0 draw. Then came /c/, who was also relegated from the Winter Cup, /sci/ was parking the bus up to the 70th minute when they decided to gamble but backfired with a goal by /c/ leaving them with 1 point out of 6 posible with 2 games to go and with the fact they were going to rely on results on the final matchday, the next game was against /vp/ who took advantage of the confused /sci/ defence and scored, but later equalized with an euphoric goal by Richard Dawkins only to be shut down immediately and being the first team to head into Autumn. That's when Aitor decided that it was best for the team to not continue hindering them while trying to help and looked out for a sucessor, the cry of help was met and his final game was against /vg/ who had won their 2 games with a +6 goal difference, but that didn't stop /sci/ from winning 2-1 and culminating Aitor Karanka's era with a consolation win, while leading the way for the new generations.